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The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.

John Clellon Holmes

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John Clellon Holmes
Age: 61 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 12
Died: 1988
Died: March 2
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Industry
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Glacier
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Glaciers
Free
Idiotic
Imagining
Ants
Hill
Hills

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